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Alice In Wonderland Summary

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Lewis Carroll is the writer name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an English mathematician and writer. He’s famous for the novel “Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland”, written for Alice Liddell, and released in 1865. The story was conceived during “The Golden Afternoon”[1][3], when Dodgson was on a boat trip with the three Liddell sisters and improvised the story to entertain them. On the request of Alice Liddell, he began writing down the manuscript of the story, which provoked him to expand and further develop the story. Over the next three years he perfected the manuscript, and in 1865 finally released it. Receiving luke “Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland” is the classic childstory about the little girl Alice, and her venture to the twisted, abstract …show more content…

She is depicted as a traditional Victorian middle-class girl, dressed with typical clothes for children at that time. She is young, and barely has a grasp on the world, so when she enters the irrational and queer world of Wonderland, she begins to ask question. She loses track of who she is, so when she poses the question “Who am I”, she has better answer than that she is her friend Mabel. Her problems, knowing who she is and what Wonderland is, further worsen throughout the story. It reaches its height when she points out “You’re nothing but a deck of cards” and suddenly wakes up. Alice meets several characters that affects her journey in Wonderland, the most prominent being the Cheshire-Cat and the Queen of Hearts. The Cheshire-Cat is an magical cat, with the special trait of a big grin over its face. It has the ability to disappear and reappear anywhere it wants. At one point, it helps Alice find her way at a crossroad. The Queen of Hearts is the ruling Queen in Wonderland. She is mad with power, and threatens to behead anyone that disobeys her will, despite her request may be against the laws of nature (even the nature of Wonderland). Alice meets her for the first time in the garden, where she is invited for a croquet game. Her first reaction of the Queen is being afraid. The Queen has no problems with executing people, and commands her guards to behead others and one another for acting against her

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One is making sacrifices for the good of others. It is shown through the characters Genevieve Heart, Hatter Madigan, and Alyss Heart. Genevieve Heart is the Queen of Wonderland. When Redd stages an attack against the queendom, Genevieve takes Alyss and Hatter to her room and gives Hatter instructions on how to keep Alyss safe. Alyss says,”I want to stay with you(pg 66).”

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In The novel, Beddor uses these conflicts to reveal the real Princess of Wonderland, Alice. In the beginning of the novel, Alyss is characterized as troublesome , demanding , and stubborn. The author states that imagination is a crucial part of life in Wonderland and Princess Alyss had the most powerful imagination ever seen in a 7-year-old ever to live in Wonderland: “ but as with any formidable talents, Alyss’ imagination could be used for good or ill, and the queen saw mild reasons for

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Stories such as The Lorax and The Sneetches are read to young children often stick with them throughout adulthood in many different ways. The morals of those stories help to teach people what our parents cannot. When people read those stories as children, they often miss the significance of certain elements in them. As these children become adults, they begin to realize just how important those books were, as well as the underlying darkness in them. In certain books such as Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan, the morals of the stories are not as easy to miss.

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The queen is painting the image that the battle is really taking a toll on her and on the kingdom. It may be that she is over exaggerating this point to get it across. She is also implying that she may not physically be a king, but in her heart she feels like a king. She is not backing

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He proceeds by explaining that there is no awe or wonder in becoming the rabbit. The child may pretend to be the rabbit for a short period of time, but there is little substance there. On the other hand, Lewis was more inclined to follow the works of the ancient world such as: “Quo Vadis, Darkness and Dawn, The Gladiators, Ben Hur” (35). The fictitious literature of these worlds immerses the reader in a world different from their own, yet still attainable. Real ambition and desire can be imaged in, “The story of the unpromising boy who became captain of the First Eleven” (35).

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Utilizing elegant diction, The Queen mainly employs appeals of Pathos and Ethos. Addressing her audience

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Alice in Wonderland Societal Reading Victorian society demanded a specific role of civilians with strict expectations they always adhere to. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, more commonly recognised by his pen name, Lewis Carroll, is one author who questioned these expectations through the use of satire within his text Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Satirizing the rule and conventions of Victorian society is one manner in which Carroll subverts the nature of this time period by drawing specific attention to the worst aspects and proving how ridiculous they truly are.

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Temptation and greed are significant elements in the three stories, as many of the characters’ actions are a result of bad decisions made due to these forces. In Alice in Wonderland, Alice’s food related temptations are what cause her change of size and her progression through the world of Wonderland. Alice is often not even hungry when confronted with items of food in the story, it is their presence that tempts her to eat them: “In the middle of the court was a table, with a large dish of tarts upon it: they looked so good, that it made Alice quite hungry to look at them” (96). It is her lack of restraint when it comes to her appetite that causes her change of size and her lack of power throughout much of the story. Gluttony is displayed for

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THEME OF ISOLATION AND SEARCH FOR SELF IDENTITY The main plan of the story Alice in Wonderland is that the seek for self-identity and for one 's purpose within the world. We know, from the start of the story, that there 's a niche between Alice and her sister in terms archaic and interests. We are able to infer from the story that Alice has no peers, which she is in a very pre-adolescent stage with a special intuition that separates her from the others. Concisely, Alice in Wonderland is that the symbolic journey of a fille through a world that she is commencing to analyze and see otherwise.

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Have you ever considered the novel, Alice in Wonderland, to be based on real events? Have you ever suspected Alice to be an actual girl? Alice Liddell, the muse for the novel, was the six year old daughter of Carroll’s minister. Lewis built a relationship with Alice during his time at School (Alice Pre-Wonderland). He was quite intrigued by young girls and would photograph them as a hobby.

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Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, is a novel written by Lewis Carroll. The book is about a girl named Alice that falls into this magical place, called wonderland. While in wonderland, Alice faces the many steps of a hero’s journey. At the start of a hero’s journey, there is The Ordinary World. The Ordinary World in Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland , is when Alice and her sister are sitting under a tree reading a book.

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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland can be described as a work of fantasy and literary nonsense. The story follows seven-year-old Alice, as she falls down a rabbit hole and enters a strange and absurd world

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To draw further scrutiny to Victorian conventions, Carroll incorporates several languages features and play. Employing the use of the useless educational system in Victorian society, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland depicts several moments within its tale where Alice attempts to conduct herself by reciting facts she learned in school to try and maintain a sense of her life prior to falling down the rabbit hole into the world of Wonderland. The first evidence of this occurring features in the first chapter succeeding her tumble. She begins to wonder how far she has fallen and attempts calculating the exact distance away from the centre of the Earth she is; “let me see: that would be four thousand miles down, I think […] but then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude I’ve got to?”

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